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Now updated with new research—the book that has changed millions of lives

After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are fixed—are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset—those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.

In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love—to transform their lives and your own.

Praise for Mindset

“A good book is one whose advice you believe. A great book is one whose advice you follow. This is a book that can change your life, as its ideas have changed mine.”—Robert J. Sternberg, co-author of Teaching for Wisdom, Intelligence, Creativity, and Success

“An essential read for parents, teachers [and] coaches . . . as well as for those who would like to increase their own feelings of success and fulfillment.”—Library Journal (starred review)

“Everyone should read this book.”—Chip Heath and Dan Heath, authors of Made to Stick

“One of the most influential books ever about motivation.”—Po Bronson, author of NurtureShock

“If you manage people or are a parent (which is a form of managing people), drop everything and read Mindset.”—Guy Kawasaki, author of The Art of the Start 2.0

Review

“A good book is one whose advice you believe. A great book is one whose advice you follow. This is a book that can change your life, as its ideas have changed mine.”—Robert J. Sternberg, co-author of Teaching for Wisdom, Intelligence, Creativity, and Success“An essential read for parents, teachers [and] coaches . . . as well as for those who would like to increase their own feelings of success and fulfillment.”—Library Journal (starred review)

“Everyone should read this book.”—Chip Heath and Dan Heath, authors of Made to Stick

“One of the most influential books ever about motivation.”—Po Bronson, author of NurtureShock

“If you manage people or are a parent (which is a form of managing people), drop everything and read Mindset.”—Guy Kawasaki, author of The Art of the Start 2.0

Top customer reviews

I was looking forward to reading this for months, and had a mixed reaction when I finally did. The book is valuable for its conceit: that there are two types of mind-sets; the growth and the fixed. The growth is the one to have if you want to thrive in life, career, relationships, etc. People are formed early on into one mindset or the other, but can change to the valuable growth mindset if they put themselves to the task. This is incredibly important and the book's value stands on this assertion alone. All of this can be summed up in a single chapter, or a scientific paper tweaked for the lay reader. The problem is that this argument is stretched thin to become a "book" and Dweck's writing doesn't maintain enough interest on its own and is often clunky, sentimental and obvious at times. I'm sure this happens a lot when a notable scientist, psychologist, etc is given a book deal and needs to expand it to justify a full-length book when something shorter would suffice to most readers (exceptions are brilliant writers like Daniel Kahneman and Daniel Gilbert, etc). So Midset is a mixed bag. The real gift here is the conceit. Read it because it has value. It's an informational book, but not a great book.

I first came across the author in a TED video. Her talk about how "not yet" generates far more power than "fail" was interesting and I decided to buy her book to further read into her studies. The book in general is an interesting piece of work. I like the way she describes the "growth mindset". However, most of the book seems to focus on discussing the difference between "fixed mindset" and "growth mindset" applied to different fields. So it does get very predictable and tedious. There is far not enough discussion about how to better develop the "growth mindset". It is like the author uses the entire book to emphasize how important "growth mindset" is but doesn't really offer much help. In particular, I don't like how she attributes every corporate failure to "fixed mindset". I think it is way too generalizing and over-simplifying.

Recommended via Michael Hyatt, this book is full of great insights about us and why we and others do the things we do.It demonstrated to me that I have a mix of fixed and growth mindsets and in particular offered advice on how to motivate my children. A great read, written in a simple and easy to understand style, it has good examples and is structured in a logical process.Recommended reading.

Failure is success! The way Dweck wrote this book was new format I have yet to read and I think it truly made the book fly by. I think all parents, educators, and coaches should read this book in order understand their students/children/athletes and better their learning. It may even help others understand their own mindset and be able to cooperate with others who have a different mindset. Usually I am against any type of grouping but I do agree with people either having a fixed or growth mindset. I hope those who read this book are able to reflect on themselves and those they work with in order to be successful. I am extremely pleased to have read this book and look forward to use my new found knowledge to enhance both my educator and coaching career.

As promised on the cover, Mindset provides advice that you can apply whether you are a manager, worker, parent, teacher, or some combination. There were a few places where I thought it dragged a bit, but those sections were brief and far between, and on net it was a quick enjoyable read.

While the fixed mindset v growth mindset concept seems simplistic at first glance, there are many subtleties to understating the effects of each mindset, and complexities to learning how to change. Having a simple model like this is very useful if you understand the details behind it and the book mixes reporting on research with anecdotes to give the concepts both a good psychological basis and resonance for readers. I expect that I'll find the material in this book useful in many work and personal situations.

This book was a remarkable read. I love the perspective the writer writes from. I am halfway through and even though you can read and get the gist of the book and its motivation quickly, the style of writing and in depth stories and research make me read more and more.

This book really supports my beliefs about learning and codifies many of the things I've been told most of my life. I do think it can open the eyes of those who may be in a fixed mindset. Due to my limited time, I gave my book to my spouse and downloaded the audible version. It's informative and will be instrumental in me continuing to believe that I can do whatever I fix my mind to do. I've also bought copies for other friends and relatives because I think everyone should have this information spelled out to them in simple and clear language. Carol does a great job of doing that.

The concepts presented in the book could improve the lives of many people and they are backed up with many years of research by various scientist. I believe these concepts would be a great course for educating our children.